Opioid Prevention
Any medication—including those you buy without a prescription—can be harmful if taken in the wrong way or by the wrong person.
Storing medications safely at home and on-the-go can help keep everyone safe. A medication lock box is a secure container that ensures medicine is only accessible to the prescription holder and will help reduce accidental overdose or misuse of medication.
Lock boxes can be used by anyone, including:
- Individuals
- Realtors (for safe storage during clients’ open houses)
- Senior living centers
- Pharmacies
- When traveling
Conversation Starters for Parents
- Counterfeit Pills: What You Need to Know
- Buying Drugs Online: What You Should Know
- Wyatt’s Story
- From 2-Day Prime to the Dark Web: Buying Drugs Online
- Drug Overdoses Killed a Record Number of Americans
- Buying Drugs Online – What You Should Know & How to Protect Your Kids
- 10 Strategies to Prevent Your Young Person from Using Drugs
- Severe Opioid Overdoses Rose by Nearly a Third During Pandemic
- Growing Up Drug Free – a Parent’s Guide to Prevention
Publications
- Drugs of Abuse: DEA publication w/facts about most commonly abused drugs
- How Teens Misuse Medicine
- 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment
- DEA Fentanyl Drug Factsheet
- Fentanyl: The Next Wave of the Opioid Crisis
- Fentanyl Flow to the United States
- Fentanyl-Laced Crack Cocaine a Deadly New Threat
- DEA Fentanyl Related Press Releases
Web Resources
- DEA.gov/onepill
- DEA’s “One Pill Can Kill” Flickr album: fake pill and drug photos
- www.JustThinkTwice.com (for teens)
- www.GetSmartAboutDrugs.com (for parents, caregivers, and teachers)
- www.CampusDrugPrevention.gov (for teachers and college campus community leaders/advisors)
- www.OperationPrevention.com